Good art should elicit a response of 'Huh? Wow!' as opposed to ‘Wow! Huh?'

As an artist, I gotta stand up to my own work.

The subject [of Los Angeles] became a general metaphor for anxiety and the speed of modern life.

I never expected to sell my art. It wasn't like today where you come out of art school and they promise you a future. Now it's almost regulated in a way. When we came out of school, we just wanted to make art that'd blow your hair back and do it for sport. There was no commercial possibility that we saw.

The fact that few painter-fine-artists used photography in their work made it appealing.

Yes, there's a certain power to a photograph. The camera has a way of disorienting a person, if it wants to and, for me, when it disorients, it's got real value.

I was raised with the Bible Belt mentality, and by coming to California, I came out of this dark place and unlearned a lot of things I'd been taught.